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Kocomo raises millions to give people a way to co-own a luxury vacation home
Who doesn’t want a vacation home? Right. That’s what I thought. Kocomo is a Mexico City-based startup that wants to help make that dream a reality. And it has just closed on $6 million equity and $50 million debt financing to advance on that goal. The company aims to allow for cross-border co-ownership of luxury […]
Brazil’s Petlove raises $150M from Riverwood, SoftBank to sell pet products and services online
Petlove&Co, a São Paulo-based digital platform for products and services for the pet market, announced today that it has raised about $150 million (R$750 million) today in a funding round led by Riverwood Capital. The round is nearly double that of what Petlove has raised in its history. The company started its life as PetSuperMarket […]
How one founder turned painful personal experience into the solution for a huge gap in healthcare
A lot of startup founders think there’s a dire need for their product in the market, but Liya Shuster-Bier knew for sure that there was one, because she’d required it herself prior to building it — yet nothing like it existed. Liya’s company Alula provides a new kind of shopping platform, organized based on treatment […]
Everything enterprise software and SaaS at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
When you hear the word, “enterprise” and you immediately think software instead of Star Trek, you’re going to love this post — and the SaaS and Enterprise-focused knowledge waiting for you at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. We’ve packed a veritable boatload of Grade A prime programming into three full days of Disrupt. Prepare […]
Alpaca raises $50M to rapidly scale its API-delivered equities trading business
The startup has big plans: It is moving into the cryptocurrency market, it announced this morning, and partnering with Plaid to make money transfer easier for investors.
Russell Westbrook, Chainsmokers join group pouring $13.5M into prebiotic soda brand Poppi
Poppi is on a mission to lead in the new category of “functional soda” by offering a better-for-you product that also tastes good.
Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head
Flip mixes a live commerce mobile app with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy.
Thatch using $3M round to put travel creators on the map
The mobile app provides tools for travel creators to build their own travel-based businesses in order to curate, share and soon sell interactive travel guides and planning services.
Xayn launches a desktop version of its ad-free, privacy-safe search
Berlin-based Xayn, which as we reported last year is doing ad-free, personalized, privacy-safe search as an alternative to tracking and profiling adtech giants like Google, has expanded its product offering — launching a desktop version (in beta for now). The desktop Xayn WebBeta is described as a “light web version” of the product with similar functionality […]